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World Acceptance Corporation is one of the largest small-loan consumer finance companies in the United States and Mexico. It offers short-term small loans, and medium-sized larger loans. It also offers insurance products.

The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol WRLD.

Starting in 1962, World Acceptance offered installment loans in South Carolina. It now has a branch network of more than 1,200 locations in 15 states (Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin) and Mexico.